Win this year's Indie Book Awards titles!
We're excited to celebrate this year's Independent Bookshop Week (14th-21st June) by giving away all four fantastic shortlists.
The week-long celebration of independent bookshops across the UK and Ireland takes place from Saturday 14th to Saturday 22nd June.
The Indie Book Awards are the only awards curated exclusively by independent bookshops, and showcase the best paperback reads for the summer. We're giving away a set of each of these sensational shortlists and a special £30/€40 National Book Token featuring this year's gorgeous Independent Bookshop Week artwork, ready to spend in bookshops everywhere!
Just choose between the fiction, non-fiction, children's fiction or picture book shortlists when you enter.
FICTION
James by Percival Everett
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson
NON-FICTION
A Bookshop of One’s Own by Jane Cholmeley
Ingrained by Callum Robinson
Dispersals by Jessica J Lee
Reading Lessons by Carol Atherton
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
Welcome to the Club: The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ by DJ Paulette
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Finding Bear by Hannah Gold
Ghostlines by Katya Balen
Murder for Two by Niyla Farook
The Falling Boy by David Almond
Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time by Salomey Doku
Reek by Alastair Chisholm
PICTURE BOOK
Bear by Natalia Shaloshvili
The Dinosaur Next Door by David Litchfield
Farah Loves Mangoes by Sarthak Sinha
The Golden Hare by Paddy Donnelly
Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright
Runaway Cone by Morag Hood
The award winners will be announced on Thursday 19th June – keep an eye out on @booksaremybag!
Discover
Discover booksellers' top picks
Send in a question of your own to win a National Book Token to spend!
Gift cards
Buy and spend in bookshops everywhere
Visit one of the hundreds of bookshops in the UK & Ireland that accept National Book Tokens.
Gift cards
Give a gift beyond words
Give recipients of all ages the excitement of choosing a book as well as the joy of reading it.
